Entries published on January 9, 2009
Second editions galore
Adrian announced today that he’s working on revising The Definitive Guide to Django to produce a second edition that covers Django 1.0, which is awesome news for anyone who’s used the book as a guide to learning Django.
In the same vein, I’d like to announce something that’s been unofficially mentioned a couple times but never fully clarified: I’m busy working on the second edition of Practical Django Projects, which will also cover Django 1.0 (and maybe a feature or two from Django 1.1, depending on how the writing schedule works out).
With the first edition, I learned a lot about how to write a book, and also a lot about how not to write a book. Aiming for the moving target of Django just prior to 1.0 was probably a bad idea, but unfortunately that’s the way the schedule happened (waiting any longer to publish would have delayed the book …